antibiotics Review Production of β-Lactamase Inhibitors by Streptomyces Species Daniela de Araújo Viana Marques 1,*, Suellen Emilliany Feitosa Machado 2, Valéria Carvalho Santos Ebinuma 3 ID , Carolina de Albuquerque Lima Duarte 4, Attilio Converti 5 and Ana Lúcia Figueiredo Porto 6 1 Campus Serra Talhada, University of Pernambuco, Avenida Custódio Conrado, 600, AABB, Serra Talhada, Pernambuco 56912-550, Brazil 2 Department of Antibiotics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Avenida da Engenharia, 2◦ andar, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco 50740-600, Brazil;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +55-81-995047420 Received: 30 May 2018; Accepted: 12 July 2018; Published: 17 July 2018 Abstract: β-Lactamase inhibitors have emerged as an effective alternative to reduce the effects of resistance against β-lactam antibiotics. The Streptomyces genus is known for being an exceptional natural source of antimicrobials and β-lactamase inhibitors such as clavulanic acid, which is largely applied in clinical practice. To protect against the increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacterial strains, new antibiotics and β-lactamase inhibitors need to be discovered and developed.